Most creatures would bleed you by the neck before they start eating you. Not murkscreamers. They would just start eating.Old men become corpses in the mistfrost of night. Fur trappers become outlaws. Children are snatched away in the darkness. Princes corrupt the Citadels they had once sworn to protect and the murkscreamers from within the Lynchwood Mire forsake the ancient boundary oaths and terrorise the road once more.Between the ever-present noose of the law tightening around his neck and the sharp tip of a sadistic outlaw's dagger at his throat, Hrathgar Pelterman must juggle these two lives if he is to get off the road alive.Haunted by his past, uncertain about his future, the huntsman must become the hero he knows he's not.
Sylvia Hall has a track record of powerful and exciting fiction for young adults, and Circle of Fire confirms her reputation.
As well as writing for teens, S. M. HALL is a journalist whose work included a column for the Guardian when she was living in the States. She has taught speech and drama and was recently involved in staging a musical in Qatar. Her husband, who was in the rock business, is custodian of John Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool. They also have a house in Derbyshire.